Professor Paul R. Martin

Biography

Professor Martin completed his undergraduate training at the University of Bristol, his clinical training through the Oxfordshire Regional Health Authority and British Psychological Society, and his doctorate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. He held his first staff position in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford, prior to moving to Australia in 1979 to take up a Lectureship in the Discipline of Psychological Medicine at Monash University. He subsequently taught at the University of Western Australia for 16 years before being appointed Professor and Head of the School of Psychology at the University of New England in 1996. In 2002, he accepted the position of Innovation Professor (Health & Clinical Psychology) at RMIT University, to provide leadership in behavioural health research. He was appointed Professor of Clinical Psychology at Monash University and Director of Psychology for Southern Health in 2006.

Professor Martin was elected to a Fellowship of the Australian Psychological Society in 1993, and received a Centenary Medal for "services to Australian society and medicine" in 2003.

Professional Activities

• National President, Australian Behaviour Modification Association (1984-5)
• Chair, 30th Annual Conference, Australian Psychological Society (1994-5)
• Director of Science, Australian Psychological Society (1997-2000)
• President, Australian Psychological Society (2000-2004)
• President, 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology (2003-2010)

Research Interests

• Migraine, headache and pain
• Stress, anxiety and depression, including postnatal depression
• Social networks and support
• Internet-based assessment and treatment
• Lifestyle and health, particularly as related to cardiovascular disease and cancer

Postgraduate Research Projects

• Anthony Centofanti, Improving asthmatic's awareness of their symptoms
• Belinda Morley, The addition of cognitive behavioural treatment to Sumatriptan in the prevention and termination of migraine recurrence
• Aneta Kotevski, The effects of treating social support and the impact on psychosocial well-being
• Phuong Nguyen, An exploratory study using mindfulness based cognitive therapy for adolescents who suffer from generalised anxiety disorder
• Anamaria Micsunescu, Cancer, psychological risk factors and social support

Potential Student Projects

• Projects involving an intervention he has developed called Promoting social networks and support
• Projects involving a web site he has developed for assessing cardiovascular risk called HEARTBehaviour
• Translational research projects involving increasing the use of highly effective psychosocial interventions for migraine/headache in the health care system
• Projects investigating how triggers of migraine/headache acquire and lose the capacity to precipitate migraine/headache

Teaching

Professor Martin is the Co-ordinator of the Doctor of Psychology (Clinical) program and the Co-ordinator of the Health Psychology stream in this program.

Collaborations

Professor Martin has collaborations with colleagues in the University of Melbourne (see below). Recent grant applications have been submitted with colleagues in the School on preventing depressive relapse, treating depression in the medically ill, and sexual function in men treated for prostate cancer. Also, he has formed a collaboration with colleagues in neurosciences and neurology to progress his migraine/headache research by incorporating functional neuroimaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Grant Support

Professor Martin has received a number of grants from the National Health and Medical Council (NHMRC) over the years to support his headache research program. Currently he is a Chief Investigator on two NHMRC project grants. One is with colleagues from the Univeristy of Melbourne (Jeannette Milgrom and Terrie Inder) entitled 'Improving neurobehavioural development in preterm infants: A randomised controlled trial of a neonatal intervention'; and the other is with colleagues from Monash (Grahame Meadows, Fiona Judd and Leon Piterman) entitled 'Effectiveness of mindfulness based cognitive therapy for preventing depressive relapse'.

Publications

Martin, P.R. (Ed.). (1991). Handbook of behavior therapy and psychological science: An integrative approach. New York: Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-08-036129-3, pp. xii+563.

Martin, P.R. (1993). Psychological management of chronic headaches. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 0-89862-211-5, pp. xvii+266.

Martin, P.R., & Birnbrauer, J.S. (Eds.). (1996). Clinical psychology: Profession and practice in Australia. Melbourne: Macmillan. ISBN 0 7329 4075 3, pp. xvi+526.

Milgrom, J., Martin, P.R., & Negri, L. (1999). Treating postnatal depression: A psychological approach for health care practitioners. Chichester: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-98645-3, pp. xxiv+265. Italian edition published in 2003 by Erickson.

Martin, P.R. (2000). Headache triggers: to avoid or not to avoid, that is the question. Psychology and Health, 15, 801-809.

Martin, P.R. (2001). How do trigger factors acquire the capacity to precipitate headaches? Behaviour Research and Therapy, 39, 545-554.

Kneebone, I.I., & Martin, P.R. (2003). Coping and caregivers of people with dementia. British Journal of Health Psychology, 8, 1-17.

Milgrom, J., Negri, L.M., Gemmill, A.W., McNeil, M., & Martin, P.R. (2005). A randomised controlled trial of psychological interventions for postnatal depression. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44, 529-542.

Martin, P.R., Todd J., & Reece, J. (2005). Effects of noise and a stressor on head pain. Headache, 45, 1353-1364.

Martin, P.R., Reece, J., & Fordyce, M. (2006). Noise as a trigger for headaches: Relationship between exposure and sensitivity. Headache, 46, 962-972.